What was your first shotgun?

Mossberg 190 KB in 16 ga. when I was 12 and based what I thought was good on what dad had. Shot quite a few Ruffed grouse with it. Still have it for some reason though now I usually take a Mossberg 500 12 ga. into the field.
 
870 last year after I banged my deer after 45 min of my first sit. so I picked it up to go bird hunting. I bought it for 100$ and it had at least two cans of spray paint on it after I had it all cleaned off I restrained the wood and had to paint everything else black to make it pretty. I have year to go to the range but have been busting clays in the back 40 but I plan to go out this Sunday
 
First trap gun was a model 12 with a standard trap stock . First o/u was a browning Broadway trap for doubles kicked the hell out of me , then a I got a rem 3200 that worked much better . Never shot much skeet but had a 70's vintage win 101 for the little bit of skeet I shot no choke tubes at that time
 
I always had access to shotguns around the house so I never purchased my first one until I was in my 20's and it was a Browning B2000 with two barrels, one 28 inches with mod choke and one 30 inches with a full choke. I mostly purchased it for hunting with but later used it on my first rounds of sporting clay's before getting an o/u Beretta.
 
In 1978 I bought a Remington 1100 LT-20 with 28" VR Modified choke barrel for hunting grouse in Southern Ohio where I lived. Also used for pheasants at Cherrybend Pheasants Farm in Clinton County, Ohio (The pheasant population had disappeared in Ohio by that time). Moved to Canada in 1984 and brought this gun with me. (Only brought 2 firearms).

Sometime in the late 1980's I had the barrel cut to 25" and thin wall chokes installed. Continued to use the gun for Pheasant, Grouse and Partridge. The chokes, shorter barrel and lightweight gun was still great and maybe better than it was originally.

Sometime later (can't remember exactly) I came across a very lightly used 21" VR barrel with Rem-chokes for this model which I installed and continued to use as an Upland gun.

In 2012 or so the gun got dropped and and broke the stock on the lower rear. Tried to fin find a replacement with no success. This is a small frame gun not a standard frame.

Fortunately Remington started making a "Sportsman" model and I obtained a synthetic stock set ( from Gravel) as a replacement. Would like to have the wood, but pretty impossible to obtain.

A lot f good hunting memories associated with this gun and I continue to use it (among others now).
 
A single shot Cooey 16 gauge I think. It was too light and configured like a musket and the recoil could knock me half around when I shot it, but I was also quite young. It wasn't a snake charmer, it was a snake. I found out years later that smart kids would fill the hole through the stock with lead shot to absorb some of the force.
 
I started shooting clay this spring... my dad gave me his 1974 Beretta 300 semi auto which was a gift to him from Mom (original Sears bill of sale in with the gun)... he figured someone in the family should use it... had less than a box of shells put through it before I started. I’m up to a couple of flats...
 
Cooey Model 84 12 guage. Have owned it since I was 10 years old, that was almost 60 years ago. I remember clearly how it killed from both ends. It sits in the gun safe now, comes out once in a while for a cleaning and oiling but never for shooting.
 
Cooey single shot 20ga. ...growing up on a farm in Alberta I've taken a shyt load of ducks and geese with that gun!
I could get 3 shots off at one pass of ducks by holding extra rounds between my fingers on my left hand. ☺
 
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